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Okay, this is some information about a light novel series known as 9S, which stands for:The Security System that Seals the Savage Science Smartly by its Supreme Sagacity and Strength

Story Synopsis:
The world of 9S is something like Type-moon's Tsukihime, and Metal Gear Solid, with plenty of Full Metal Panic, put together in a rather original way, I think. The story is set in an age of science, but not in too distant a future. The Mad Scientist, Crazed Genious or whatever you want to call him, Mineshima Yujiro, has dissapeared several years previous to the where the story begins. The inheritance he left behind, the technology and object he had created, were given the codename Legacy, and are highly sought after by government agencies and terrorists, for reasons both good, and...not so pleasant. One of these 'objects' he left behind, was his daughter, imparted with a mental calculating capacity that dwarfs supercomputers, combined with her physical body, which makes for a devastating combonation.

-Touma is an outcast member of an ancient family, who have refined their destructive impulses into a weapon. However because such a personality would not fit in society they developed a masking personality which hides their killing impulse. Touma awakened to his killing impulse due to training from his father years ago and struggles to suppress his other personality

-Mineshima Yu is the daughter of Mineshima Yujiro. Kept under constant surveillance by ADEM, an anti-terrorist force dedicated to keeping guard over 'Legacy,' she has never been outside since her father disappeared, and she was taken captive.

In Volume 1, Touma is the only one to escape during a terrorist attack, and is taken to ADEM's headquarters, and there meets Yu. ADEM forms a reconaissance mission, and the novel takes off. Touma struggles with his families bloodline, and the task he needs to complete, while Yu is simply thankful for the opportunity to see the outside world for the first time in over 10 years. Together it's a race against time to stop the terrorists, and regain control of the "Legacy," which is made more complicated when the leader of the opposition is...

I also wanted to say that according to a pretty thourough check, there seems to be no english publication or translation, so I'm opening the doors to free translation. What this means, is that if you want to actually read this novel, like most novels, all you need to do is check out:

I read up to volume nine.
It is interesting with a lot of action packed fights and WTF revelations which completely steers the plot into left field in an interesting way.
The super weapons are completely mind boggling and the villains are also "Special" in many ways through out the series.

The only qualm about this series I had was that the illustrator changed for the latest volume, which has aboslutely nothing to do with the content itself; therefore, I'm definitely supporting this translation.

Plot wise, I first thought this is just really action packed and gore, but the Heaven's Gate arc show these guys can be really creative too. Character wise Yuu is freaking win and awesome, her interactions with Maya are all sorts of hilarity, then there she and Touma~~~<3. I think if you like Ghost in the Shell you would like this, same if you disliked GiTS.

after reading 10 vol and the side story i have to say it has an excellent plot. sure they did have to change the illustrator in the latest volume but thats no big deal. and the fact that the main character fights like Shiki Nanaya might feel like a rip off for some but the plot is very original.

Wow, didn't noticed there is a thread for 9S! Thanks for making one. Its really hard to search for it in any search engine with its name. Didn't expect to find this when i was googling Mineshima Yuu for fun xD.

This is in fact my favourite light novel among all that i have read so far. I love the character settings and how they interacts. Story and plot setting wise, the authors really did well in setting the stories and the Legacy related stuffs. There are many things that people normally wouldn't expect or think that detailed.

Spoiler for Legacy that I really love but might spoil:

Who could ever expect an invisible sky fortress to ambush you middle of no-where suddenly? However Yuu could even think of some method to keep track of it and counter it!

The inorganic creature in the most recent arc is also an out-of-the-box setting that is indeed very unique.

The story revolves around the fight over the 'Inheritance of Mineshima', which are high tech equipments invented by the genius Dr. Mineshima. The first volume is about a sea lab being taken over by a group of terrorists who is after the super computer Lafi1 . The main character- Touma is a temporary worker there who managed to escape. He was taken to ADEM, the special organization set up by the Japanese government to recover and oversee Mineshimas inventions. There he met a girl who was binded by restraints and blindfolded under the watch of a squad of armed guards....

Main characters Touma and Yu

Touma is an outcast member of an ancient family who have refined their destructive impulse as weapon, however because such a personality would not fit in society they developed a masking personality which hides their killing intent. Touma awakened to his killing impulse due to training and a certain traumatic event. He becomes easier to invert into his killing side if he wields their family heirloom- which is a knife(yes the man is Shiki Nanaya)

Yu- The daughter of Dr. Mineshima who possess super human intelligence. She was has the body muscle equivalent to a normal human in good shape. However she is able to perform near superhuman feats due to her absolute control of her body as well as her superhuman calculation/knowledge which allow her to maximize her output and lets her do everything 'efficiently' and without waste of energy. Imprisoned in ADEM due to her knowledge of Dr. Mineshimas technology which is considered to be dangerous. Made a promise with Touma's other personality to one day fight each other because Toumas killing personality consider her a great prey.

Maya

Maya is the half sister of Touma and head of their familys intelligence operations in the Asia sector. Confident and intelligent and well versed in politics. Have the obligatory brother complex and don't get along with Yu well, calls Yu cave/monkey girl.

The quirky mini-boss squad"Mirage" in Volume 1 consists of characters that won't be out of place in any Metal gear solid series, it includes a hacker who can connect his brain directly to computers, a woman with near perfect stealth camo( its 100% visual concealment and can't be detected by acoustics/sonar or thermal imaging) a guy with a sonic vibration sword that liquidizes anything it touches and a big guy wearing an nearly indestructible combat armor.

oh Volume 2 has them fight a spider tank with rail gun powered by microwaves from satellites, and a master of disguise who can poison people through visual eye contact plus a gay cowboy who possess improbable aiming skills(he can bounce bullet off other objects to hit his targets that are behind cover or are moving very fast).

vol2 pics:

And My personal favorite team of bosses for several future volumes,I will refrain from explaining too much about them just their names.

They are called the "7 Sins ". A team of super powered soldiers of fortune. Well loved by the people of Africa and various third world middle eastern countries for their actions in saving the poor and punishing the rich and powerful.
identity going from left to right: Mammon of Greed, Belphegor of Sloth, Lucifer of Pride(old monk), Beelzebub of Gluttony ,Leviathan of Envy, Satan of wrath(the guy in the full body suit), Asmodeus of Lust.

I would love it if 9S gets an anime. But somehow I doesn't want it to be animated too... its been intriguing within my head. As almost all light novel adapted anime would have to cut off and summarize the story within limited episodes.

I enjoyed almost every single moment of 9S and its kinda hard to imagine how much content will be removed. (Btw, 9S is also the thickest light novel I ever had xD). Maybe it would be better if it was adapted into OVA or movie...?